Some participants of the EMBA McGill - HEC Montréal 2020 cohort during the module 'The Reflective Mindset, Managing Self'. Bottom: Cyrille Sardais, associate professor and holder of the Pierre-Péladeau Chair of Leadership. Being thoughtful, stepping back from always doing and seeing familiar experiences from a new perspective, this is what the participants [...]

Did you know that in the 21st century there is a general management issue, namely how to manage (over)qualified people? In fact, this question is widely raised in companies with a large number of qualified professionals, as it is the case at Sid Lee, a creative agency working globally from Europe and North [...]

The Researchers in Social Responsibility and Sustainable Development[1] (CRSDD) of ESG UQAM organized on September 19 a public seminar on the theme "Science Fiction and Enterprise". Among the five invited presenters were Marine Agogué, assistant professor in the Department of Management of HEC Montréal, and Cyrille Sardais, associate professor in the same department [...]

International research in the field of leadership gives us an opening to ways of doing things and unexplored worldviews. But how much progress has been made on Western leadership? Simona Camelia Plopeanu spoke on this subject with Cyrille Sardais, Associate Professor in the Department of Management and holder of the Pierre-Péladeau Chair of [...]

Martin Blom Martin Blom is associate professor of business administration at Lund University School of Economics and Management in Sweden. During his two-week stay at HEC Montréal at the invitation of Cyrille Sardais, holder of the Pierre-Péladeau Chair of Leadership, he held a conference entitled ‘Leadership on demand: How followers frame and [...]

Conference Presented by Martin Blom on March 22, 2018, at HEC Montréal A key aspect of leadership is the followers’ constructions of its value and relevance. This seminar highlights the importance of the ‘demand’ for leadership when leader—follower relationships are established, where we discuss how followers can influence, inhibit and initiate managerial leadership [...]

Despite the tremendous attention that leaders and leadership have received in recent years, there has rarely been any discussion of community and community actors. Yet these people who sometimes work without resources, authority, or status, manage to exert a major influence on those around them. This book proposes to rectify this oversight and [...]

Sylvie Deffayet Davrout, Professor in management and Holder of the Chair in Leadership and Managerial Competencies at EDHEC After a one-week stay at HEC Montréal at the invitation of Cyrille Sardais, Holder of the Pierre-Péladeau Chair of Leadership, Sylvie Deffayet Davrout, Head of the Leadership and Managerial Competencies Chair at EDHEC, is [...]

As part of the 7th edition of the conference Femmes Leaders organized by Événements Les Affaires, Cyrille Sardais, Associate Professor in the Department of Management and Holder of the Pierre-Péladeau Chair of Leadership at HEC Montréal, moderated a discussion table within a feminine perspective on the theme: Assumed manager, assured leader? Why you [...]

The challenge was to summarize his doctoral thesis on how Chinese managers manage anger when exercising leadership… in a mere 180 seconds. Jean Sébastien Goulet, who is completing a PhD in Administration - Management at HEC Montréal, passed it with flying colours. The doctoral candidate came in third at the Ma thèse en 180 secondes [...]